[PD] jMax Phoenix

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Sep 21, 2010, at 6:36 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Maurizio De Cecco wrote:
>
>> Given the fact that jMax slept a few years, it cannot compete with  
>> puredata in terms of available libraries, patches, and in general  
>> maturity of the solution.
>
> No, it wasn't in this order : first it already couldn't compete with  
> PureData, AND THEN jMax 4 appeared, which finished killing it, as  
> the API was all different and no-one bothered porting externals to  
> it (well, I tried, and I had to give up because some features had  
> been removed from jMax). By the time the project was called dead,  
> everybody had already switched to Pd or was in the process of doing  
> so.
>
>> 6) The language: jMax support the use of expressions in object  
>> definition, like in | int ( 10 + $foo) | so that objects in  
>> abstractions can be parametrised with respect to the arguments.
>
> I gave up jMax because this feature was introduced. This is because  
> it removed the possibility to pass an arithmetic operator as an  
> argument. It was a showstopper for me.

I agree for different reasons.  This syntax does seem overly  
complicated and takes away from one of the things I like best about  
the Max paradigm: really simple syntax.

.hc


>
>> the 0.6 beta release; it does not mention the Max OS X version,  
>> that was not ready at the time.
>
> You too write "Max OS X" instead of "Mac OS X" ? Is this a virus you  
> caught from Miller ? ;)
>
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